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Genus: Thomisus Walckenaer, 1805 | Family: Thomisidae Sundevall, 1833

World Spider Catalog Archive Version 26, generated on 2026-02-02

Thomisus zyuzini Marusik & Logunov, 1990

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031522

Permalink: https://wsc.nmbe.ch/lsid/urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031522

Described:

Distribution: Algeria, Turkey, Cyprus, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Mongolia

External Resources*: araneae - Spiders of Europe | GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Zoological Museum of Moscow University (ZMMU), Moscow, Russia f - (Marusik & Logunov, 1990)
Paratype: Arachnological Institute of Korea, Namyangju-si, Gyeonggi-do, Seoul, South Korea 1f - (Marusik & Logunov, 1990)

Taxonomic References

Thomisus onustus Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1989c: 24, f. 3a-b (mf; misidentified per Marusik & Logunov, 1995a: 144)

Thomisus zyuzini Marusik & Logunov, 1990: 34, f. 6-8 (Df) Original description

Thomisus zyuzini Marusik & Logunov, 1995a: 144, f. 19-20 (Dm)

Thomisus zyuzini Demir, Aktaş & Topçu, 2008a: 45, f. 2-3 (m)

Thomisus zyuzini Kiany et al., 2017: 5, f. 9a-e (mf)

Thomisus zyuzini Dekkoumi, Alioua & Meddour, 2026: 115, f. 8A-D, 9A-C (mf)

References

Dekkoumi, B., Alioua, Y. & Meddour, S. (2026). Additions to the spider fauna (Araneae) of Algeria: first records of five species from the northern Sahara. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 12(1): 109-121. doi: 10.48311/jibs.12.01.109 -- Show included taxa

Demir, H., Aktaş, M. & Topçu, A. (2008a). Two thomisid species new to the Turkish spider fauna: Ozyptila tricoloripes Strand, 1913 and Thomisus zyuzini Marusik & Logunov, 1990 (Araneae: Thomisidae). Turkish Journal of Arachnology 1(1): 44-48. -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (1989c). An annotated check list of crab spiders (Araneae: Thomisidae) of Saudi Arabia. Fauna Saudi Arabia 10: 20-30. -- Show included taxa

Kiany, N., Sadeghi, S., Kiany, M., Zamani, A. & Ostovani, S. (2017). Additions to the crab spider fauna of Iran (Araneae: Thomisidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 53: 1-8. doi: 10.5431/aramit5301 -- Show included taxa

Marusik, Y. M. & Logunov, D. V. (1990). The crab spiders of Middle Asia, USSR (Aranei, Thomisidae). 1. Descriptions and notes on distribution of some species. Korean Arachnology 6: 31-62. -- Show included taxa

Marusik, Y. M. & Logunov, D. V. (1995a). The crab spiders of Middle Asia (Aranei, Thomisidae), 2. Beiträge zur Araneologie 4(1994): 133-175. [[publ. in Dec. 1995]] -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2026-02-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Dekkoumi, Alioua & Meddour, 2026
2026-02-11	Type repository inserted	Marusik & Logunov, 1990
2026-02-11	Species distribution update	Dekkoumi, Alioua & Meddour, 2026	Old value
2025-03-06	Species distribution update	Marusik & Logunov, 2006	Old value
2020-12-21	Species distribution update	Bosmans et al., 2019b	Old value
2017-01-28	New taxonomic reference entry	Kiany et al., 2017